NO ONE will beat Venus Williams playing with those numbers! I hope she can carry on this kind of tennis throughout the summer leading into the Open!

Exactly! Shows just how WELL Bartoli played to get those 5 games. Venus was on fire and Bartoli really did test her at times. If Venus wasnt such an amazing athlete with an amazing ability to get to balls and return them with venom, the score would have been much, much closer!

And she didnt let up even when she was affected by the leg. The lady was just so confident. She knew Marion would take advantage if she even so much as blinked. She also knows how much a win from the grave (after being written off as basically dead and buried....not for the first time in her great career) will shut up people like Mary Carillo who even had the nerve to question the injury. It was so obvious that Venus was favouring that leg at the start of the second set. You could even see it on her face.

I've been very impressed with her low unforced errors in those 4 matches. The bottomline is when Venus keeps her unforced errors down, her opponents don't have a chance. It's a fact that even her haters can't deny.

Only after the last tree has been cut down
Only after the last river has been poisoned
Only after the last fish has been caught
Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten. "Cree Native American Prophecy"

if she can keep these numbers going into the US Open...she WILL WIN...its all a question of tranferring these numbers, her performances and confidence onto the hardcourts..if this injury is only a niggle and she can stay injury free through these tournies, i dont see why she wont be a favourite going into US Open..she has the confidence and when venus is confident...she can do anything